To navigate networks of paths, robotic ants follow trails of light instead of pheromones, and they maintain their individual orientations. Data on how these robots navigate via swarm behavior, along ...

Theo Volz, 15, a freshman at Rock Bridge High School and a member of the Army Ants robotics team, makes adjustments on the Army Ants’ robot called “Mantis” on Wednesday while preparing for the FIRST ...

For better or for worse, high school is a formative time, as is beautifully and tragically illustrated in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Of course, some of the characters learned more hard-won life ...

Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic parameters. Individual ants are ...

One ant is not very smart, but put a bunch of them together and they can achieve some remarkable things. Inspired by this emergent cooperative behavior, Harvard researchers have built robots that can ...

Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. Scientists have developed a small robot to understand how ants teach one another. The team built the robot to mimic ...

Community youth robotics team Army Ants is preparing to compete with teams from around the world in Houston this week. Army Ants received the prestigious Chairman's Award at a regional competition in ...

Individual ants are relatively simple creatures and yet a colony of ants can perform really complex tasks, such as intricate construction, foraging and defense. Recently, Harvard researchers took ...